[Y]ou can’t lose a war if you never define it as such. And if you always keep your options open the door will never close behind you. And if everybody else loses, you win, if you define “you” narrowly enough. Finally, if you don’t care about anything it doesn’t matter.

Originally cairns were burial mounds. Bodies were buried under piles of rocks in places where the ground was too hard to dig. When meat went bad, one of my relatives said it smelled cairny. She said it was an old saying.